NHS carer information strategies: minimum requirements and guidance on implementation

This Health Department Letter (HDL) relates to the preparation and submission by Health Boards of NHS Carer Information Strategies for carers who may have rights under section 12AA of the 1968 Act and/or section 24 of the 1995 Act. That is, carers of any age caring, or intending to care, for adults or disabled children. The purposes of this HDL are to introduce a legal requirement on NHS Boards to prepare and submit to Ministers an NHS Carer Information Strategy, to provide statutory guidance linked to that requirement; and to provide additional best practice recommendations on how to develop and implement a strategy.